Quake Champions: Nyx Buries Her Foes in the Burial Chamber Arena

Some characters in Quake Champions are beefy and lumbering. Nyx appeals to players who prefer their avatars nimble and stealthy. She boasts an active ability that helps her evade danger, and her character design is among the sleekest on the Quake Champions roster.

Our gameplay preview centers on Nyx as she roams the Burial Chamber, an arena filled with twists and turns. If you like what you see, make sure you subscribe to Shacknews on YouTube to check out even more videos.

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I haven't been following the beta, but it looks good. Are they doing that specialist/class type stuff like in Overwatch or are they going old school like in Q3A where each character had the same skill set?

To be honest, I'm not terribly interested in that sort of team play. I prefer having every weapon or skill available to everyone.

They're not actually specialized/classed but every character has a moderate special ability, in this case Nyx can very briefly become invisible and invincible but cannot fire weapons, and also a semi-minor ability like Nyx gets a single wall jump.

I guess you could sort of think of it like like UT2004 except each characters only gets one of the adrenaline options/mobility enhancers?

For the most part it looks like it plays mostly like a standard map/item control and fragging arena game.